foxdemon wrote:The thing is, though, they never hid it. This project was always public knowledge. The EU leadership didn't explain it to Europe's citizens, but when have they ever bothered to explain anything to the masses?
The EU has been behaving like an empire, crushing nationalism within Europe while expanding as much as it can into Estern Europe and the Mediterranean. The eastern expansion has bought them into conflict with Russia and the southern expansion has opened them to an Islamic insurgency, while they try to suppress resurgent nationalism in their core provinces. I guess the haughty leaders of the EU thought they were so powerful that they could get away with it. But now they have all sorts of problems.
But we must stay on topic. Is this why so many British want out of the EU? Is it that they want to escape this empire, a supposed open society which has become a totalitarian dystopia.
About the bold, the answer is yes and no. Yes, British people voted BREXIT because they feel, see something is wrong and that something is getting worse. If you ask me if the "median British voter" would be able to put in words like you did that "feeling" ? I don't think so. Most people, the ones who are not in a ideological spectrum , the majority of people, from most part isn't as versed in politics and economics. On the other hand they can point out what they see in a day by day life: their money can buy less every year, they are getting more Muslims by the year, Sharia courts and Mosques are spreading across the country, they have no idea who the EU people are that's why they call them "they" because they can't name them and that makes them uncomfortable. They see their PM's are irrelevant in decisions that really affect their country, I believe that is how a typical low/middle class Brit translates what will make them want to Brexit. Mainstream media went from thinking people were a bit slow to treating people as if they have a IQ lower than 80. Calling Islam a religion of peace is one of those moments, believing most Europeans or Americans have a IQ lower than 80.
Politicians usually sell 2 things: fear or hope. Nigel Farage brilliantly managed to sell both at the same time. The hope Britain will thrive economically outside the EU and that immigration would stop. At the same time he sold fear of remaining in the EU, that Britain will go broke, a Muslim invasion was imminent.
Truth is, Britain will be ok in both cases, exiting or not. What needs to change more than anything is the relationship the British Government has with Islamic money, specially investments. We have a park with a 2 billion investment being build by Muslims in Kent. Do you think Muslim demanded more Mosques among other things to make such investment?